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Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Truths turn into dogmas the minute they are disputed.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Causes Profound Real
There cannot be a nation of millionaires, and there never has been a nation of Utopian comrades; but there have been any number of nations of tolerably contented peasants.
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Life Men Principles
All government is an ugly necessity.
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Government Necessity Ugly
The test of happiness is gratitude.
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Christian Gratitude Test
Truth can understand error, but error cannot understand truth.
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Error Truth Understand
There are no words to express the abyss between isolation and having one ally. It may be conceded to the mathematician that four is twice two. But two is not twice one; two is two thousand times one.
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Catholic Discipline Wall
Science must not impose any philosophy, any more than the telephone must tell us what to say.
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Impose Philosophy Telephone
Christianity met the mythological search for romance by being a story and the philosophical search for truth by being a true story.
GILBERT K. CHESTERTON

Eye Spring Story Sunset
We’re all in the same boat, and we’re all seasick.
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Boat Same Seasick
Progress should mean that we are always changing the world to fit the vision, instead we are always changing the vision.
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Accepting Doctrine Miracle
The more I considered Christianity, the more I found that while it had established a rule and order, the chief aim of that order was to give room for good things to run wild.
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Christian Order Running
There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.
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Hate Ignorance People You
Eugenics asserts that all men must be so stupid that they cannot manage their own affairs; and also so clever that they can manage each other’s.
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Clever Men Stupid
It is shorter to state the things forbidden than the things permitted; precisely because most things are permitted and only a few things forbidden.
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Men Running Thinking
A child’s instinct is almost perfect in the matter of fighting. The child’s hero is always the man or boy who defends himself suddenly and splendidly against aggression.
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Christian Orthodoxy Sin
One may understand the cosmos, but never the ego; the self is more distant than any star.
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Acceptance Knowledge Star